> I was hoping that a clearer winner would emerge, but it seems 
> that people
> are all over the place in terms of what they're using.  
> Anyone have any
> ideas as how we should fix this moving forward?

Please, whatever happens, release something that is not Beta, there are lots
of customers (including us) that will not touch something until that 4
letter word is removed.

With no voting rights, all I can suggest is what I would like to see as a
Turbine developer (perhaps we need a poll of what the user's would like to
see?): 

a) 2.1 should be considered End of Life.  Expend almost no energy to fixing
bugs, but perhaps be nice and friendly and help out anyone with ways to
rebuild 2.1 source to fix the issue. (we're using 2.1 so I'm okay with this
if (b) follows).  

b) release 2.2 final in some form. Coupled or not, it's just gotta work.  I
know our company will not touch 2.2 or anything further until everyone on
the Turbine dev team is happy it's no longer Beta.  Bloated/Coupled or not,
this has to be pretty close to a final release version?

c) My gut from reading about it is that Summit/Plexus sounds like a great
foundation for a new version of Turbine, so I am interested in what others
have to say about Summit (am I right in thinking that "Summit is a
kinda-Turbine built on Plexus foundations, which in turn is based on
Avalon/Phoenix"?)

I love Turbine 2.1, warts and all, but it is pretty big and has a steep
learning curve.  From the UML diagram of Summit sent on this list, it looks
like Summit is much much leaner, and I'm pretty impressed if that UML
diagram sent around sums it up, and still provides (most of) the
functionality of a Turbine-type-thing. (please correct me if I am way off
track here).

I applaud the attempts to have a TDK, but perhaps for new versions rather
than a TDK, some more thorough docs & Faq's might be easier for the dev
team, and more useful in the long run.

I'll end this by thanking all the people who have over the time built
Turbine what it is today.  I'm impressed, and it's helped me a bunch.

regards,

Paul Smith

Lawlex Compliance Solutions
phone: +61 3 9278 1151
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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